In the News

Speak of the devil. I mentioned Neanderthal DNA research two days ago and the very next day spied this story at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/new-method-confirms... ... Technical objections

For those interested in Ptolemy and the origins of astronomy, or just astrology, one might be interested in the post at http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/astrology-the-aesthetic-and-th...

The original research has now reached the pages of New Scientist - go to www.newscientist.com/article/dn25372-volcanic-blasts-hint-that-mercury-i... ... although they aren't calling it a loose canon, or

At www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2014/140403_1.html ... a team led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities has discovered a giant

At www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/world/americas/discoveries-challenge-beliefs-... ... which is a piece on discoveries at Serra da Capuara National Park in Brazil (in the NE of the country). Rock art

It seems a local ecologist in East Africa is now saying there is no chance the Mount Kilimanjaro glacier is going to melt - in

At http://beachcombersalert.org ... reports from beachcombers around the world are sought for the purpose of understanding the ocean currents and winds. A video at http://bit.ly/1isEo98

The 'wasp star' - does that not smack of something buzzing, or making a droning noise. In The Times of March 29th (page 82), Norman

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/04/new-bacteria-discovery-has-implica... ... is all about bacteria from space and a possible future threat to life on earth. At http://phys.org/print315745301.html ... a new study of

At http://westerndigs.org/hidden-architecture-of-1000-year-old-village-disc... ... which concerns an early Pueblo village site - and talking about sites (of the web variety) Western Digs is very good. At

Another interesting article in the March issue of the NCGT Journal (see www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php page 56-60. It is on the origin of oceans and how they

At www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... March issue, page 119, we have a reference to the Global Climate Status Report published by the Space and Science Research Corporation

At  www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... March issue page 16-37. Johnson describes various theories on the magnetosphere and it inter-action with the solar wind. However, he favours mountain

Bob Johnson, at www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php ... comes up with a list of issues. Click on the March issue at the top and a pdf of the

I'm not particularly into politics, apart from the fact I don't like any one of them - but here we have a classic (for anyone

At www.bibleorigins.net/RohlsChronologyDeconstructed.html ... people at blogs such as this seem to have a need to inform Christians to be aware of various ideas the authors

At www.livescience.com/44476-ancient-egyptian-tomb-with-pyramid-entrance-di... ... a tomb at Abydos has yielded up a vaulted burial chamber, a sandstone sarcophagus painted red and a small pyramid near the

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2014/evidence-from-tempest-... ... the so called Tempest Stela is causing a bit of a stir. It was originally found at the Temple of Karnak in

At http://phys.org/print315559603.html ... space telescopes have shown up a swirl of stars with a central emission with two jets - seeming to be coming out

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/03/organic-ejecta-clues-to-violent-ev... ... researchers are looking at aromatic hydrocarbons (dimenthylnepthalene) which they hope will identify violent events in the history of the universe. Aromatic hydrocarbons